LA Times reported this on Disney’s corrupt business practices, so Disney has banned them from film screenings in petty revenge.
WOOOOOOW
But did you have fun?
Did you die?
Who cares! Enjoy life.. it’s Disney for Christ sake🙄
Almost 350,000 people live in Anaheim, where Disney controlled local government is corrupt and racist and poverty is skyrocketing.
Only a couple of months ago, Disney got Anaheim to declare a state of emergency in order to forcibly remove large homeless encampments. That’s what’s going on in Anaheim, multi-billion dollar corporations owning local governments and doing things like having portable toilets seized from homeless encampments and benches removed from public property because they see the poor communities that live in these places as eyesores or cheap, exploitable labor. The LA Times banned from films thing would’t that big of a deal, by itself, if it wasn’t part of a wider issue of corporate war against poor and homeless people (as well as a blatant attempt to stifle any press coverage at all).
That’s the thing though, people have undoubtedly died over this. In tent cities, overcrowded housing, and unsafe working conditions. Tens of thousands of poor people live and work in the places where rich people go to play.
I didn’t know about Disney’s issues in Anaheim, but as someone who grew up near Disney World in Central Florida, the experience gave me a lifelong hate of the corporation. It’s depressing they’re pretty much embedded in our global media landscape despite being basically pure evil.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-cia-helped-disney-conquer-florida
At a secret “seminar” Disney convened in May 1965 Helliwell came up with the approach that to this day allows the Disney organization to avoid taxation and environmental regulation as well as maintain immunity from the U.S. Constitution. It was the same strategy the C.I.A. pursued in the foreign countries. Set up a puppet government; then use that regime to do your bidding.
Though no one lived there, Helliwell advised Disney to establish at least two phantom “cities,” then use these fake governments to control land use and make sure the public monies the theme park generated stayed in Disney’s private hands. On paper Disney World’s “cities” would be regular American home towns—except their only official residents would be the handful of hand-picked Disney loyalists who periodically “elected” the officials who, in turn, ceded complete control to Disney executives.
I’d also suggest reading Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World.
Corporations like Disney turn your brand loyalty into a shield to cover their massive abuses of power. I’m not saying you need to throw out all your cartoons in a pointless quest for personal purity but please interrogate those warm nostalgic fuzzies, that visceral feeling of defensiveness…
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